DATA README FILE: "FORECASTER (MIS-)BEHAVIOR"
/_data/_other_data/_public_signals/_hard_variables

CODE FILES:
* hard_data.R cleans the different (hard) public signals and combines them into a single .R file. 
The output is a time series data frame. 
* ea_survey_data.R cleans the different EA (hard) public signals and combines them into a single .R file. The output is a time series data frame. 

RAW DATA FILES:
* sp500-shiller.xls
* term-spread-fred.xls
* u-rate-fred.xls
* wti-fred.xls
* import-prices-fred.xls
* tips-spread-fred.xls
* neer_bis.xlsx 
* cleveland-fed-inflation.xls 
* ea-import-prices-ecb.csv
* ea-usd-fred.xls
* ea-brent-fred.xls
* ea-u-rate-fred.xls
* ea-term-spread-fred-2.xls
* ea-term-spread-fred-1.xls
* ea-dax-yahoo.csv

NB: Please note that individual .R files automatically detect and set your working directory. Because RStudio locks this directory the first time that you run a file in a given folder, one has to restart RStudio before running .R files in another folder.